July 22: Today in Dance

Born Today: Charles Weidman

Modern dance choreographer Charles Weidman (1901–1975) is usually lumped together with Doris Humphrey (1895–1958), his creative partner, and he is too often overlooked and relatively unknown outside of the modern dance world, and that is unfortunate. Of course he danced with the Denishawn company, as did the other Pioneers of Modern Dance, but his comedic sensibility must have been a…